Gingercake Holiday Gifts Sewing Series 2016 and week 1 giveaway!

I am so excited for another round of Gifts Sewing this year! Do you remember when I did a similar series back in 2013? Well, it has been 3 years and I thought it would be great to do it again! Not only will you be seeing all the fabulous sewing of some very creative bloggers, but Gingercake is hosting some great giveaways for each of the 5 weeks of the series! That means you have FIVE chances to win! Your chance to win this week is at the end of this blog post!ere is the line up of sewers~

Today is the first day of the series and I am so so pleased to have the very talented Heidi Staples of Fabric Mutt as the guest sewer! Heidi lives in Texas with her family and is a fellow author at C & T publishing. Her book, Sew Organized for the Crafty Girl is a must for getting your sewing life in order!

Heidi has a beautiful range of sewing tutorials! One of my favorites is this pixie cup below. A great use of scraps and so useful!

For the Gifts Sewing series, Heidi sewed an Art Caddy Tote and converted it into a make-up organizer! She use some of Cotton + Steel’s new fabrics which look adorable!. Head over to Heidi’s blog to read more about the bag!

Love it! Thank you Heidi!

GIVEAWAY ALERT!

Since Heidi and I are both author’s for C&T publishing, this week’s fabulous giveaway is a set of FIVE books from C&T! Included is my book, Sewing to Sell and Heidi’s book, Sew Organized for the Crafty girl! To enter the giveaway through rafflecopter, just leave a blog comment about what you want to make as a gift this year for the holidays!a Rafflecopter giveaway

109 Comments

Anne Marie
on November 14, 2016 at 8:56 am

I am making matching pajams for the grandkids and a new tree skirt for my Christmas tree.

Love the Art Caddy Tote in both sizes. It’s a great bonus when you can utilize a pattern in more than one way. I am knee deep in sewing a quilt for my daughter and table toppers for each of my sisters for Christmas.

I belong to a coffee group (I’m the only quilter) that meets on the first Wednesday of each month. I am making each member a small gift bag with chocolates inside. They always expect me to bring show and tell, lol.

I am making 2 window panel quilts for my daughter and DIL I also am making some pillow covers (MineCraft) for my grandaughter…We always have a home made Christmas with each of us making gifts and decorating the tree with ornaments that we have made….

i’ll be making embroidered throw pillows, Christmas jammies, and Christmas dresses for our grandgirls….
and probably other various things as well!! usually most of our gifts that we give are handmade 🙂

Since here in California, most businesses are charging for shopping bags. I thought it would be helpful to sew up shopping bags for my family and friends.
It will be a great use of cleaning out my stash.
I love the books that you are giving away. But mostly very excited to learn to sew new items from your guest bloggers.
Holiday sewing here we come.
Warmes Wishes Pam Metsers

I made a dozen embellished Christmas stockings for the local children’s shelter. I completed a wool applique Christmas quilt for my close friend, and I have plans to complete three baby quilts for the shelter for delivery before Christmas. Thank you for the giveaway opportunity, Virginia! I love C & T Pub/Stash Books!

I hope to make as many gifts as I can. As much as I don’t really want to think of Christmas yet, I know that as a maker of most gifts, planning ahead is key. I’m looking forward to seeing some ideas from these great sewers! Thank you for organizing this!

I hope to make matching dresses for my granddaughter and her AG doll. I also have plans to make matching aprons for them and my daughter-in-law. I have already started on vintage Ninja outfits for granddaughter and grandson.

I have at least 20 pairs of pajamas lined up to be made for the little ones in my family as well as several gift items! I love being able to make special gifts for all the loved ones on my list as well as other people!

I’m planning on making most everything I can! Tablet covers and potholders are a few things on my list. I love the idea of using the Art Caddy Tote for makeup, I think that’s going to find its way onto my gift list!

I hope to make a few mini quilts for some of the crafty ladies in my life and some other fun wool christmas projects. I also love to make new ornies for the tree and to give as gift toppers.. Happy Holiday!!1